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On 23 January 2020 the next session of the regular seminar “Christianity in the History of Medieval and Modern Europe” was held at the Centre for French-Russian Studies (Moscow). The seminars in the series are convened conjointly by the Centre for Medieval Studies, HSE, Centre for French-Russian Studies, and the Centre for Ukrainian and Belorussian Studies (Faculty of History, Moscow Lomonosov State University).

On February 7, Professor Marcus Levitt (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, USA) visited the Faculty of Humanities to give a lecture about Mikhail Chulkov’s The Comely Cook. In his lecture, Professor Levitt examined the novel within the context of eighteenth-century Russian culture and, in particular, the tradition of ‘lubok’ literature.

There has been published a new monograph by Olga A. Zhukova, chief research fellow at the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue.

On January 30, at the A.S. Pushkin Literature Museum, there was held a lecture and presentation of the book "Italian Journey of Peter Chaadayev" by the chief research fellow of the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, professor Alexey Alekseevich Kara-Murza.

The Linguistic Convergence Laboratory and the School of Linguistics are organizing an International Summer School on Areal Linguistics and Languages of Russia.

In March and June of 2019, Marina Butovskaya, a senior fellow of the International Anthropology Centre and an associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, went on expeditions to the United Republic of Tanzania with a team of her colleagues.

On January 11, 2020, there was published an interview with the academic supervisor of the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, professor Leonid Luks 

Michele Minardi, from Italy, holds a PhD in Archaeology from Sydney University and has spent a number of years in investigating Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. He has recently joined the team of Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies as a Research Fellow. We spoke with Michele about his projects, teaching methods and expedition plans.

Leading Research Fellow of the ILFP has presented a talk at the Conference CREATIVITY-2019, which was held in Rio de Janeiro from 8 to 13 December 2019.

On November 22—29, the 100th anniversary celebration of the International Union of Academies (Union académique international, UAI–IUA), the most prestigious international organization in the humanities and social sciences, was held in Paris. Askold Ivantchik, Head of the Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology and Vice‑President of the International Union of Academies, served as an organizer of the event.